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Mary possessed a priestly status equivalent to that enjoyed by
bishops and ministerial priests. This conviction has not only been expressed in
writing, but in Church art.
At the moment I can present images in two galleries:
- Mary wearing a
bishop’s pallium (6th to14th centuries)
This is
highly significant, for only bishops were allowed to wear the ecclesiastical
pallium. And they wore it only when exercising their distinctly priestly
ministry at the Eucharist or during solemn liturgies.
The images are
from:
San Vincenzo in Rome, 6th century
Parenzo, Croatia, 6th
century
San Venanzio in Rome, 7th century
Santa-Maria-in-Porto, Ravenna,
6th or 7th century.
Archbishop’s Chapel, Ravenna, 11th century
the
Basilica at Torcello, 12th century
Serbo Campagnano, Italy, 13th
century
Santa Maria Antica, Rome, 14th century
- Mary wearing a
bishop’s or priest’s liturgical vestments (12th - 20th
centuries)
The images are from:
Gengenbach, Germany, 12th
century
Russia (?), 12th century
Barcelona, Spain, 13th
century
Amiens, France, 15th century
France (?), 17th century (?)
Go to Gallery of
Images, no 1.
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